Deadpoolco-creator Rob Liefeld is saying goodbye to Marvel Comics, asDeadpool Team-Upwill bethe artist’s last work produced for the House of Ideas. For the penultimate issue in this five-part miniseries, Liefeld is pulling out all the stops, as one of thelast major characters he created for Marvelis coming back in a big way.
Written and drawn by Rob Liefeld,Deadpool Team-Uphas been a wild rideso far, as Wade Wilson finds himself caught up in a war over dragon eggs in an alternate dimension. Characters as varied as Wolverine, Hulk and Crystar have appeared so far, butDeadpool Team-Up#4 brings Major X into the fray.
Major X the perfect guest star to bring into the story; Rob Liefeld previously introduced him into Marvel canon in 2019, but he hasn’t appeared much since. Yet he’s the perfect character to show up inDeadpool Team-Up, as the preview above will attest.
Rob Liefeld’s Marvel Send-Off Brings Back Major X – Cable’s Alternate Timeline Son, Explained
Deadpool Team-Up#4 – Written By Rob Liefeld; Art By Liefeld; Ink By Liefeld, Chance Wolf, & Ed Tadeo; Color By Juan Manuel Rodriguez; Lettering By Joe Sabino
Major X is actually Alexander Nathaniel Summers, the son of Cable and Storm from an alternate future; as is often the case with time-travelers associated with the X-Men, Major X’s future is quite bleak, as the mutants of Earth were largely wiped out by a being known as the Catalyst. The young Summers was raised in the X-Istance, a safe haven established by mutants and Atlanteans. There he was trained by his father to be the ultimate warrior, eventually joining the X-Command army and gaining the rank of Major.
Major X is quite the powerful mutant, as he has all of his father’s telepathic and telekinetic abilities, in addition to his mother’s weather manipulation.
The founder of the X-Istance was a mutant known as the X-Ential, who eventually went missing after disagreeing with the Atlanteans. This left the X-Istance in a vulnerable state, allowing the Catalyst to stage a deadly attack. With everything falling apart, Major X used his vehicle, the Motherbike, to travel back in time and find the X-Ential’s past self so he can restore the X-Istance in the future.As the son of Cableand Storm, Major X is quite the powerful mutant, as he has all of his father’s telepathic and telekinetic abilities, in addition to his mother’s weather manipulation.
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Deadpool Team Up#5 (Of 5) – Available July 16, 2025 From Marvel Comics
Major X also has quite the arsenal at his disposal. While he’s an expert marksman who makes use of various oversized firearms, Major X also possesses the Sword of X, a blade made from the melted down adamantium bones of Wolverine. With all of that at his disposal, Major X should be more than up to thechallenge of taking down Deadpool, soit will be interesting to see how Major X gets involved in Rob Liefeld’s swansong for his most beloved character,and the Marvel Universe as a whole.
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